Saturday, March 9, 2013

Rumsfeld, Petraeus Linked to U.S. Imposed Torture

The Guardian reported:

The Pentagon sent a US veteran of the "dirty wars" in Central America to oversee sectarian police commando units in Iraq that set up secret detention and torture
centres to get information from insurgents. These units conducted some
of the worst acts of torture during the US occupation and accelerated
the country's descent into full-scale civil war.

Colonel James
Steele was a 58-year-old retired special forces veteran when he was
nominated by Donald Rumsfeld to help organise the paramilitaries in an
attempt to quell a Sunni insurgency, an investigation by the Guardian
and BBC Arabic shows.

A second special adviser reported directly to David Petraeus. Neither Rumsfeld or Petraeus have been charged with war crimes. Our "democracy," where the ruling class makes the rules, would have it no other way.

The Guardian/BBC Arabic investigation was sparked by the release of classified US military logs
on WikiLeaks that detailed hundreds of incidents where US soldiers came
across tortured detainees in a network of detention centres run by the
police commandos across Iraq. Private Bradley Manning, 25, is facing a
prison sentence of up to 20 years after he pleaded guilty to leaking the
documents.